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What, then, is the content- inevitably separated by our minds-
of this one Intellectual-Principle? For there is no resource but
to represent the items in accessible form just as we study the
various articles constituting one science.
This universe is a living thing capable of including every form
of life; but its Being and its modes are derived from elsewhere;
that source is traced back to the Intellectual-Principle: it
follows that the all-embracing archetype is in the
Intellectual-Principle, which, therefore, must be an intellectual
Kosmos, that indicated by Plato in the phrase "The living
existent."
Given the Reason-Principle [the outgoing divine Idea] of a
certain living thing and the Matter to harbour this
seed-principle, the living thing must come into being: in the
same way once there exists- an intellective Nature, all powerful,
and with nothing to check it- since nothing intervenes between it
and that which is of a nature to receive it- inevitably the
higher imprints form and the lower accepts, it. The recipient
holds the Idea in division, here man, there sun, while in the
giver all remains in unity.
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